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Other Names

Ostryna, Lida District, 2nd Uchastok, Vilna Guberniya, Lithuania
Ostrina, Grodno Guberniya, Russian Empire/Poland
Ostrino, Grodno, Guberniya, RussianEmpire/Poland
Ostryn, Lidzky Uezd, Grodno Guberniya, Poland
Astryna, Grodno Oblast, Belarus

View Ostryna via MapQuest (Latitude 53°44´, Longitude 24°32´)

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Maps

• National Archives, Washington, DC 20408

4x5 black and white=$4.40; 8x10 black and white=$5.25
World War II vintage German-flown aerial photographs in the Defense Intelligence Agency, Record Group
Ostryna: GX 8242 SD #141: Scale 1:15,200, 16 July 1944 (large file!)

Pictures

• Nowy Dwor: Interior of the Beth Hamidrash
• There is a recent picture of the former Synagogue in Nowy Dwor at the bottom of the Nowy Dwor frame in Shtetls of Belarus
• There  was a Novy Dworer Unt. Verein in Chicago with a burial plot. - Use your browser's "find in page" feature to find "NOVYDWORER".  NOTE: this MIGHT be Nowy Dwor, Poland, not Nowy Dwor, Belarus!
• YIVO's marvelous on-line photgraph collection has 17 pictures of Nowy Dwor, but most of them are probably of the other Nowy Dwor.  You'll have to register to use the site - it's free.  Enter the town name as I've spelled it here.
• Novy-Dvor has an entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia online.  Use this spelling.
  
• Ostryna: A street in whose houses Jews lived and the main street
• Ostryna: A house near the Synagogue and the site of the Jewish Cemetery
• A postcard of Ostryna
• There are pictures of Ostryna at the bottom of the Ostryna frame in Shtetls of Belarus
• YIVO's marvelous on-line photgraph collection has 1 picture from Ostryna.  You'll have to register to use the site - it's free.  Enter the town name as I've spelled it here.
• The WWI German occupation passport of Benzal Albert or Alpert, a smith born in Nowy Dwor.
  

Background Information

• IAJGS Cemetery Project has an entry for Ostryna - search for "OSTRYNA"
• There are Landsmanshaftn cemetery plots in the New York area. From the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York Home Page,  click on "10,200 Burial Societies in the NY Metro Area" under "Exclusive Resources".  Enter "Ostryna" into the search box.
• Read about a recent trip to Ostryna by Carl Smith, one of the Lida District Researchers
• Web page memorial to the Wigdorowicz family from Ostryna
  
• Yizkor Book: Nowy Dwor
• Yizkor Book: Ostryna

Web Pages for individual localities

• Nowy Dwor NOTE: There is another Nowy Dwor in Poland. Nowy Dwor, Lida District coordinated by Harriet Hinderstein
• Ostryna, under construction, contact Bernard Anscher and Dr. David Kaplan

Landsmanshaftn

• Ostriner Society phone and fax (914) 369-6034

Vital Records Indices

• Nowy Dwor marriages, 1897-1899
  
• Nowy Dwor deaths, 1897-1899
• Ostryna divorces, 1899, deaths 1897-1900
• Ostryna marriages, 1897-1900
  

Holocaust

Yizkor Book Translation

• Nowy Dwor
• Ostryna
• Yizkor Necrologies Database
• Micha Reisel's Memorial to relatives who were murdered
• Two Yad Vashem testimonies of Ostryna natives & survivors Wladimir Glembocki and Golda Shwartz

Information on Individual Localities

• Vital records index for Nowy Dwor
  
• Dziembrow
• Nowy Dwor
• There's information on a Landsmanshaft incorporation papers, but it's probably for the other Nowy Dwor [follow the links from the
  Exclusive Resources" column]
  
• Ostryna
• Incorporation papers information on 2 Landsmanshaftn for Ostriners [follow the links from the  Exclusive Resources" column]
• The Holocaust in Ostryna

Famous Sons

• Dr. Harry A. Wolfson [was caught by the Nazis in Lithuanian in 1942, saved by the US Army and sent to YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He was a leading scholar in Semitic Philosophy and was the Littman Professor of History at Harvard, honored by Harvard and two US Presidents, buried in the Ostriner Society Cemetery section (Chevra Messilas Yeshorim Anshei Ostrin) grounds, Mt. Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY.] This book contains a description of the Ostryna area pp. 5-21:

Schwarz, Leo W. 1906-1967. Wolfson of Harvard : portrait of a scholar, Leo W. Schwarz ; with appreciations by Charles Angoff and Isadore Twersky and an epilogue by Lewis H. Weinstein. 1st ed. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978. xxxiv, 283 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

HaMelitz 1901 Donors in Honor of Bronfman wedding in Berditchev:

1921 Census (published 1923)

• Nowy Dwor administrative district
• Ostryna administrative district

General Information Entries from the 1929 Polish Business Directory

Clicking on highlighted locality names will bring up the 1929 business directory listings.

NAME OF LOCALITY	LAT/ LONG	DISTRICT/ UCHASTOK	YIZKOR	OTHER REF.	DESIG- NATION	town comprised of:	TOWN	POWIAT/ District	JUSTICE OF THE PEACE	ADMINIS- TRATIVE COURT	POPU- LATION
Boyary/Bolshiye Boyary	5338 2450	Lida uezd					Dziembrow*
Doroglyany/ Bolshiye Pugachi/Pugache/ Pugache Male/ Pugache Velke	5348 2437	Lida uezd					Nowy Dwor*
Dziembrow/ Dzembruv/ Dembrovo	5338 2429	Lida uezd			miasteczko (small city) and gmina wiejska	Jewlasze, Lesiszcze, Oszurki, Spusza	Dziembrow*	Lida	Sczcuczyn	Wilno	199
Glebokie		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Nowy Dwor
Golwce		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Nowy Dwor
Lesiszcze		Lida uezd					Dziembrow
Lojbiszka		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Nowy Dwor
Lyadsk/Lyatsk/ Lyatski/Luadsk	5338 2437	Lida uezd					Dziembrow*
Mutwica		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Nowy Dwor
Naroshi/ Naroshe/ Naroshi	5348 2430	Lida uezd					Nowy Dwor*I30
Nowy Dwor/ Novy Dvor/ Novi Dvor/ Novradeker/ Naujadvaris	5348 2434	Lida uezd-second uchastok	- X - 1912 rabbi was Yosef Rapp (1873-?); EJ article: Novy Dvor; Kagan 5170; Rech Pospolitaya, Grodno Pavet (Grodno Region) end of 16th c.;	EE: XI: 769 [4 lines].	miasteczko (small city) and gmina (town)	Glebokie, Golwce, Mutwica, Sobokanow- szczyzna	Nowy Dwor	Lida	Lida	Wilno	655
Ostryna/Ostrino/  Ostrina/ Ostrin/  Astrina/ Austrina	5344 2432	Lida uezd-second uchastok	- X -		gmina wiejska	Lojbiszka	seat of the council office of Ostryna	Lida
Ostryna/Ostrino/  Ostrina/ Ostrin/ Astrina/ Austrina	5344 2432	Lida uezd-second uchastok	Fond #165 : Grodno Archives; Lith. St. Hist. Archives: revision lists:	EE: XII: 146 [7 lines].	miasteczko (small city)		seat of the council office of Ostryna	Lida	Wasiliszki	Wilno	1,574
Oszurki		Lida uezd					Dziembrow
Sobokanow- szczyzna		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Nowy Dwor
Spusza/ Spusha Stava	5338 2425	Lida uezd					Dziembrow
Starodvortsy/ Starodvortsa	5349 2448	Lida uezd					Dziembrow
Yevlashi/ Jewlasze	5338 2434	Lida uezd					Dziembrow*

Grodno (Belarus): Belorussian Historical Archive in Grodno; from Elyashevich
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162 Ostrino Synagogue in Lidski uezd in Ostrino, #290, 12 chronicles 1897-1900

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